Upcoming Fox Series ‘Krapopolis’ Dropped Its First Batch Of NFTs, The Krap Chickens
‘Krapopolis’ is Fox Corporation and Bento Box’s first foray into NFT-driven animated series.
Jamie Lang
As The Debate Over AI Rages, Artists Are Already Using It To Illustrate Entire Comics
Using software like Dall-E and Midjourney, artists are creating comics without lifting a pencil.
Tools Of The Trade: How Buck And Takashi Murakami Used Spark AR To Bring The Artist’s Work To Life
Buck art director Helena Dong explains how she created an augmented reality exhibit for Takashi Murakami’s work at The Broad in Los Angeles.
Adamma And Adanne Ebo Sign Overall Deal With Disney’s 20th Television Animation
The twins are currently in development on ‘Supashawty Girls, Funkamatic Bangbang.’
Filmation Got To Produce Its First Major TV Series With This One Weird Trick
Filmation’s 1966 ‘Superman’ series laid the foundation for animated superhero shows, but getting the job took some creative deception.
Illustrator And Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, Creator Of ‘Little Nicholas,’ Dies At 89
A national hero in France, Sempé died on Thursday.
Netflix Cleans Up At 2022 Juried Emmy Awards, Winning Nearly All Animation Honors
Artists who worked on Netflix’s ‘Arcane,’ ‘The House,’ and ‘Love, Death + Robots’ won awards.
Raymond Briggs, ‘The Snowman,’ ‘When The Wind Blows’ Creator, Dies at 88
“He liked ‘The Guardian’ editorial describing himself as an ‘iconoclastic national treasure,’” Briggs’s family remembers.
Toronto’s Guru Studios Is Staffing Up For Moonbug’s Series Adaptation Of ‘My Magic Pet Morphle’
In addition to the ‘Morphle’ series, Guru is hiring for a ‘Charlotte’s Web’ adaptation and a new season of ‘PAW Patrol.’
Tiktok Animators Nutshell, King Science Sign With Odd Projects Management
With 20.6 million and 12.7 million followers respectively, Nutshell and King Science are among the most influential artists on Tiktok today.
VFX Artists Speak Out Against Unsustainable Work Conditions
Marvel may be the vfx industry bogeyman at present, but they’re certainly not the only studio exploiting artists and technicians.
More Than 1,500 Sign Pledge To Fight For WGA Coverage Of Animation Writers
Support for reform is growing as pro-animation WGA member Raphael Bob-Waksberg campaigns to join the organization’s board.
Former Disney Showrunner Appointed To VP Role At The Daily Wire
‘Tangled: The Series’ co-creator Chris Sonnenburg will lead Daily Wire’s animation ambitions.
Streamers, Networks, Theaters Aren’t Meeting Audience Demand For Animation, According To New Data
According to new data from Parrot Analytics, demand for animated content has doubled since 2020 while supply has failed to keep pace.
Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: ‘Sonic 3,’ Smurfs Musical Get Release Dates
‘Sonic 3’ will hit theaters in late 2024, with Chris Miller’s ‘The Smurfs’ musical following in early 2025.
Box Office: ‘One Piece Film: Red’ Scores Historic Debut In Japan, ‘Super-Pets’ Holds Strong In North America
‘One Piece Film: Red,’ coming to North American cinemas this fall, posted the second-best two-day opening in Japanese history.
Not Done Yet, ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Gets Box Office Boost With Chinese Theatrical Release Date
As theatrical runs wind down in many key territories, ‘The Rise of Gru’ will get a second wind with Chinese and Italian releases.
Confusion Reigns Over Future Of Animation At Warner Bros. Discovery
We try to make sense of the noise surrounding rumored cuts and cancellations at Warner Bros. Discovery after the company’s Q2 earnings call.
Render Like The Pros When Dreamworks’ Moonray Software Goes Open Source Later This Year
Soon, everyone will have access to the same rendering software used on ‘The Bad Guys’ and ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.’
Long-Lost Quirino Cristiani Film ‘Entre Pitos Y Flautas’ To Screen In Buenos Aires
The film by the pioneering Latin American animation director was discovered in a group of old film cans.
